Retro Renovation

The first winner of our 1st annual Useless but Wonderful contest is: Femme1 and her vintage eyebrow stencils!
Congratulations Deb aka Femme1. You won by a clear majority — taking more than 50% of the votes. Super Tuesday hopefuls only wish they had your mo! To remind everyone, here’s what F1 said when she entered [...]

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Femme 1 got her entry into the Useless but Wonderful Contest in before the year-end deadline, but I just picked it up now that I am at home. I will organize all the entries and see if I can make a poll so everyone can vote; stay tuned. Meanwhile, from Femme 1, these vital female [...]

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Sarah submits another priceless item to our contest:
Was cleaning out my desk and found my Go-Go’s jukebox strips. Not 
sure what to do with them… but they sure are precious to me. 
xoxo
SARAH
Thank you, Sarah! xoxo Pam
Keep your entries coming, readers! Only one more week to go - contest ends Dec. 31. Win the acclaim of [...]

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This summer I became the proud owner of about 100 feet of “Miss Agnes” dress labels — two big rolls. I sew, but I know that I will never be able to bear to cut these.
Miss Agnes ran a well-known ladies’ dress shop in nearby Pittsfield during its heyday. I think she bought dresses from [...]

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Sara enters our year-end contest with this very cool ring-size chart. She says:
Not sure this is entirely useless … but when am I going to use this??  :)
I purchased this at a thrift store here in Victoria BC Canada for .29 cents. 
Love the blog!
xoxo SARAH
xoxo to you, too, Sara!
Keep your entries coming, readers, send your jpeg [...]

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Mary-Frances of Midcentury Style has entered our useless but wonderful contest with this yummy animal cracker box - uncut. Here’s what she has to say:
I’ve had this sitting around in the house for 7 years. I have NO idea what to do with it and really don’t want to cut it up. So, here it [...]

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Ursula of Shop Ursula has entered our 1st annual contest. Here’s what she has to say about these lovely items:
While these might be useful to some people, I have yet to find a purpose for them in my life… but I had to have them! The bar guide is fun to look at, but we [...]

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Here we have just a sampling of 500 tickets to a show by New England’s #1 Hypnotist 32 years ago. How could I let these go from Adele S.’s attic to the dumpster?
Enter your own Useless but Wonderful item for our competition: Email jpeg and blurb to me at: Pam@RetroRenovation.com

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Stephan gives us the first entry in our year-end contest — not one, not two, but three, Kurl Katcher hair nets. Ebay description below. Looks like he nabbed ‘em for $7.99.
Can you top this? Review the (not very strict) rules here. Then: Send your jpegs of the most useless but wonderful thing you’ve bought this [...]

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Yesterday I was in a cleaning frenzy, and I got the idea to host this contest:
What is the most incredibly wonderful, but basically, utterly useless vintage whatever that you found this year?
For me: 11 feet of wax paper, for Ranch House Enriched White Bread. I just had to have it (from ebay), even though I [...]

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